
Solutions Architect - Strategic High Tech
CAJob$180–248K/yrPosted 1w agoStill listed 1w ago
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Job overview
As a Strategic Solutions Architect on Databricks’ Digital Natives team, you will work with customer stakeholders, product teams, and customer-facing colleagues to develop architectures and solutions using the company’s platform and APIs. You will guide a major AI-native customer through implementation and best practices, provide technical leadership, and build technical champions. The role spans data engineering, data science, machine learning, and SQL analysis workflows.
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Full job description
While candidates in the listed location(s) are encouraged for this role, candidates in other locations will be considered.
As a Strategic Solutions Architect on the Digital Natives team, you will shape the future of the big data landscape of one of the largest global tech companies by working with the most sophisticated data engineering and data science teams.
Reporting to the Field Engineering Manager, you will collaborate with customer stakeholders, product teams, and the broader customer-facing team to develop architectures and solutions using our platform and APIs. You will guide one of our largest AI native customers through the competitive landscape, best practices, and implementation; and develop technical champions along the way.
The Impact You Will Have
- You will partner with the sales team and provide technical leadership to help customers understand how Databricks can help solve their business problems.
- Consult on Big Data architectures, implement proof of concepts for strategic projects, spanning data engineering, data science and machine learning, and SQL analysis workflows. As well as validating integrations with cloud services, home grown tools, and other 3rd party applications
- Collaborate with your fellow Solutions Architects, using your skills to support each other and our users
- Become an expert in, promote, and recruit contributors for Databricks inspired open-source projects (Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow) across the developer community.
What We Look For
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5+ years in a data engineering, data science, technical architecture, or similar pre-sales/consulting role
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Experience building distributed data systems
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Comfortable programming in, and debugging, Python and SQL
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Have built solutions with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
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Expertise in one of the following:
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Data Engineering technologies (Ex: Spark, Hadoop, Kafka)
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Data Science and Machine Learning technologies (Ex: pandas, scikit-learn, pytorch, Tensorflow)
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Available to travel to customers in your region
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[Desired] Degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research)
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Nice to have: Databricks Certification
NOTE: If your experience isn’t a perfect match for the job description, but you feel like you’re a good fit for the role, apply. We want to work with smart, passionate, people who are good at their job, and, a lot of times, those people have non-linear career paths.
Pay Range Transparency
Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.
Local Pay Range
$180,000—$247,500 USD
About Databricks
Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. To learn more, follow Databricks on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Instagram.
Benefits
At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.
Compliance
If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.
How this job compares
Set against the 8,177 open Solutions Architect jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 30, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$180–248K/yr
- California median$154–265K/yr931 salary ranges
- US median$141–244K/yr7,273 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $214K, is 3% above the California median midpoint ($208K) — in the middle half of Solutions Architect salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 1,010 open Solutions Architect jobs in California and 8,177 across the US. 10% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Solutions Architect postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years at the median (7,333 postings).
- Education
- 3,132 of the 8,177 open Solutions Architect jobs (38%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 30, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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